Intel's first dual core 64-bit (Intel 64) Pentium CPU with Hyper-Threading. The first model, the Extreme Edition 840, was introduced in 2005 with a clock rate of 3.2 GHz. It is the same as the ...
Intel had a solution ready to add 64-bit features to the "classic" 32-bit x86 ISA, but the company chose to push forward with the Itanium operation ...
The most recent Atom used in laptops is from 2016 and it was hardly fast back then. Up until recently, there were separate brands for Celeron and Pentium processors. Intel has now bundled both of them ...
Following is a brief history of PC CPUs, starting with the most current. Starting in 1994, AMD introduced its first Pentium-compatible CPU, the K5. It was followed by the K6 and then the Athlon ...
Later, the company offered to replace processors -- but for only those Pentium users who could prove that their systems had been affected by the FDIV flaw. In other words, simply having the flawed ...
When picking the best CPU for the job, there are a couple of things you need to consider. Price is, of course, a big one: You can find processors for anywhere from $200 to nearly $900, so setting ...